Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistanâ€™s nuclear program.

….Inside the Obama administration, some officials say, Pakistanâ€™s drive to spend heavily on new nuclear arms has been a source of growing concern, because the country is producing more nuclear material at a time when Washington is increasingly focused on trying to assure the security of an arsenal of 80 to 100 weapons so that they will never fall into the hands of Islamic insurgents.

The administrationâ€™s effort is complicated by the fact that Pakistan is producing an unknown amount of new bomb-grade uranium and, once a series of new reactors is completed, bomb-grade plutonium for a new generation of weapons.

Over the last eight years, the U.S. has provided Pakistan over $11 billion in military and economic aid.

Surely, even if the U.S. aid is not directly diverted to nuclear weapon projects it is being done indirectly by enabling Pakistan to use money for expanding its nuclear arsenal that it would have been forced to use on other projects in the absence of American assistance.

The Guardian had a story last year on how Pakistan was misspending billions of dollars in American millitary assistance.

As U.S. tax payers struggle with a wave of foreclosures, huge job losses and increasing outsourcing, the schmucks can take comfort that their precious tax dollars is going to expand the nuclear bombs of one of the most dangerous and unstable regimes in the world.

I thought maybe India and Pakistan would have a final war to end all wars (still a possibility), but Zardari’s admission sure is a bolt out of the blue.

SearchIndia.com Responds:

You write: Pakistan creating and nurturing terrorists

Queen Anne’s dead.

The most ignorant of the ignoramuses are well aware that Pakistan has been breeding and nurturing terrorists for decades to inflict damage on India.

Even if Mr.Benazir ‘Lucky Widower‘ Bhutto admits to it, the news still has no ‘flash’ or ‘shock’ appeal.

In his book Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Pak journalist Arif Jamal describes in tedious length how Pakistan’s army and government has been creating trouble in Kashmir through terrorist incidents like murder, bombing, acid-throwing, shooting and other violent activities since 1947.

We’ve read the boring book, and one of these days we’ll rouse ourselves up to review it.

StrYngLad74 July 8, 2009 at 11:38 am

SI Said: “The most ignorant of the ignoramuses are well aware that Pakistan has been breeding and nurturing terrorists for decades to inflict damage on India.”

True

SI Said: “Even if Mr.Benazir â€˜Lucky Widowerâ€˜ Bhutto admits to it, the news still has no â€˜flashâ€™ or â€™shockâ€™ appeal.”

From the perspective of the ignoramuses in Pakistan who are in constant denial, such statements are shocking and treasonous. Do you remember the backlash Zardari received in Pakistan for calling Kashmiri militants, terrorists and saying that India was never a threat to Pakistan?

SI Said: “In his book Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Pak journalist Arif Jamal describes in tedious length how Pakistanâ€™s army and government has been creating trouble in Kashmir through terrorist incidents like murder, bombing, acid-throwing, shooting and other violent activities since 1947.”

Jamal is still a journalist, and an open-minded one, but the likes of him are brushed aside by the mullah/Zaid Hamid-fed populace in Pakistan as anti-Islamic, anti-Pakistani, RAW/CIA/Mossad agents, or cow-piss drinkers (rather subtle way of accusing them as Hindus). Intellectuals in Pakistan like Pervez Hoodbhoy, Hassan Nisar, Hamid Mir, and Asma Jahangir are often blackballed in a similar manner. In such an environment, a public admission of guilt by A LEADER is of monumental proportions.

P.S.: I can’t wait for the tirade of ad-hominem attacks on Zardari from the nutjobs. 😀

SearchIndia.com Responds:

1. You write: From the perspective of the ignoramuses in Pakistan who are in constant denial,

Nobody is in denial in Pakistan. The whole thing is a charade.

2. Zardari is as much a leader as Indira Gandhi was a woman.

Surprised this weakling has lasted this long.

Most likely, Zardari is being propped up by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to keep the bearded whackos at bay.

StrYngLad74 July 8, 2009 at 1:45 pm

SI Said: “The whole thing is a charade”

I never said that my usage of DENIAL with respect to the populace in Pakistan is borne out of ignorance.

SI said: “Zardari is as much a leader as Indira Gandhi was a woman.”

Pakistan has a history of either dictators or puppets. You know you have a problem with your armed forces don’t listen to the leader.

SI Said: “Most likely, Zardari is being propped up by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to keep the bearded whackos at bay.”

SearchIndia.com Responds:

You write: How can a weakling keep bearded whackos at bay, I wonder.

You sure can if you have the CIA/State Dept guiding your actions/running the show and watching your back.